[boodleboodle]

This politician is basically a Korean knockoff of Charlie Kirk.

In his 40s, touring the country "debating" college kids. Selling middle-school level economic arguments that appeal to online community addicts.

Basically a spokesman for the "I tell it like it is" crowd.

[Loughla]

When did it become cool for full grown adults to start dunking on college kids?

What is that about? Why do they generally always target college kids for that kind of thing instead of, hell I don't know, nursing homes or construction sites?

[vkou]

The first rule of politics is that you don't want to get into fights with people who can beat you.

The second rule of it is that the right questions (have you stopped beating your wife?) can always be spun to make your opponent look like a complete idiot. Always control the framing of a situation.

The third rule of politics is that while intelligent people can see through charades #1 and #2, and if they aren't your target demographic, you don't need to give a shit about what they think.

[fragmede]

which comes to the fourth rule of politics under democracy, which is that dumb, wrong, ignorant people each have one vote as well.

[amflare]

It's not like anyone is forcing the students to participate. If someone of voting age wants to engage someone on policy positions, then they accept the consequences. Likewise, if someone wants to engage with voters, then a college campus is a perfectly legitimate location.

[dmurray]

Colleges are full of debating societies, chapters of political parties, and budding social activists. Politicians just go where there's an audience.

[mothballed]

Colleges are [often] public property unlike all the rest of what they mentioned.

If you go with your own microphone you can shout out and shut down the competition and game your own youtube clips, while the competition can't trespass you from the property.

It's really the ultimate cheap shot.

You basically have to be a moron to debate someone like Charlie Kirk in the first place because the game is rigged; he has the table, the microphone, the editing, the security and if you object to the rules there's nothing you can do but walk away. The moment you get the upper hand he can simply kill the mic, stop recording, and move on to the next guy and all the meanwhile claiming he's doing it on neutral terrain.